The Quantum World
Subtitle: Quantum Physics for Everyone
Contributors: Paul Hewitt (Illustrator)
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: April 20, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780674013421
Subjects: Popular science; Quantum physics (quantum mechanics); Science; Science/Mathematics; General; Science / General; Quantum Theory
Description: "As Kenneth W. Ford shows in The Quantum World, the laws governing the very small and the very swift defy common sense and stretch our minds to the limit. Drawing on a deep familiarity with the discoveries of the twentieth century, Ford gives an account of quantum physics that will help the serious reader make sense of a science that, for all its successes, remains mysterious."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: vii; label: 1
title: Beneath the Surface of Things
pagenum: 1; label: 2
title: How Small Is Small? How Fast Is Fast?
pagenum: 8; label: 3
title: Meet the Leptons
pagenum: 29; label: 4
title: The Rest of the Extended Family
pagenum: 67; label: 5
title: Quantum Lumps
pagenum: 92; label: 6
title: Quantum Jumps
pagenum: 112; label: 7
title: Social and Antisocial Particles
pagenum: 131; label: 8
title: Clinging to Constancy
pagenum: 153; label: 9
title: Waves and Particles
pagenum: 184; label: 10
title: Pushing the Limits
pagenum: 220; label: Appendix A
title: Measurements and Magnitudes
pagenum: 249; label: Appendix B
title: The Particles
pagenum: 252; label: Appendix C
title: Going for the Gold
pagenum: 257; title: Index
pagenum: 259